Lenovo buys IBM's xSeries aka x86 server business, what about EMC?
By Greg Schulz
Lenovo buys IBM's xSeries x86 server business for $2.3B USD, what about EMC?
Once again Lenovo is new owner of some IBM computer technology, this time by acquiring the x86 (e.g. xSeries) se...

The Chinese PC vendor that just can’t stop growing has today added another component to its expanding empire by agreeing to buy IBM’s x86 server business for $2.3 billion. Initially rumored almost a year ago, the price of this deal is below the expected range, with IBM appa...

They say that “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” The trouble is that sometimes things are working ‘just fine’, meanwhile the competition has jumped up the evolutionary ladder to take advantage of efficiencies and capabilities that aren’t avail...

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Cyber Monday marketing numbers for 2013 were up compared to 2012, according to Vocus Marketing Cloud. Those numbers are expected to climb even higher this year. Statistics from 2013 showed: A 77 percent increase in push notifications through retail apps. As much as 88 percent of retail...

I joined 600 people last night at a session sponsored by Hive to listen to Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop. Currently he is the chief architect at Cloudera and a director at Apache Software Foundation. The hall at NetApp facility … Continue reading →

This post is sponsored by Good Technology. The third and most recent in the series of white papers from Canada Health Infoway, the standards body for E-Health in the country, is Mobile Computing in Clinical Settings. Transformation through Enterprise Mobility This details a comple...

Service assurance for the cloud will be shaped by innovation and open guidelinesSan Francisco, CA and London, UK-January 14, 2014 - Moogsoft, the leading pioneer of service assurance solutions for managing cloud and hybrid infrastructures, has joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA...

Tuesday 14 January, 2014
ApacheCon this year will expand content and networking opportunities for thousands of developers and users working on more than 100 open source software projects.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 14, 2014 – The Linux Foundation and The Apache Software Foundatio...

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=67541&page=1 The term Big Data is an all-encompassing phrase that has various subdivisions addressing different needs of the customers. The most common description of Big Data talks about the four V’s: Volume, Velocity, Variety...

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=67541&page=1 The term Big Data is an all-encompassing phrase that has various subdivisions addressing different needs of the customers. The most common description of Big Data talks about the four V’s: Volume, Velocity, Variety...

Tech Veteran and Former CEO of Tealeaf to Drive the Next Phase of Growth for the CompanySUNNYVALE, Calif, Jan 10, 2014 - Moxie Software, Inc., the leading provider of customer centric enterprise social software, today announced the appointment of Rebecca Ward as Moxie Software's new pr...

IBM wants to build a large and profitable business from what has mostly been a triumph of computing bragging rights, so it is giving Watson $1 billion and a nice office. Watson is IBM’s name for a combination of powerful data-processing capabilities and software that analyzes informati...

Achieving continual control and optimisation of its SAP software estate Maidenhead, UK - January 8, 2014 Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today that Vallourec, the leader in premium tub...

I have commented a few times (here and here) that the move towards software-defined everything means that new combatants will be stepping into what has been traditionally been a fairly sparsely populated networking boxing ring. If one of the end games for SDN is a tighter link between ...

by Uday Tennety: Director, Advanced Analytics Services at Revolution Analytics The R ecosystem has become widely popular lately with large players such as Pivotal, Tibco, Oracle, IBM, Teradata and SAP integrating R into their product suites. All these big players are using value chain ...

By Bob GourleyThe AFCEA Bethesda chapter is known in the DC community for pulling together some of the most virtuous/mission focused events in the community. If you are unfamiliar with them I’ll just say that the attitude of this group of volunteers is always focused on doing the...

The ongoing convergence of digital and physical commerce has become a driving force in the success of today's leading B2B and B2C companies. Savvy senior executives are utilizing channel agnostic business technologies that enable them to give customers what they want -- an exceptional,...

Atlanta, GA, January 06, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The Georgia CIO Leadership Association is now accepting nominations for the sixteenth annual Georgia CIO of the Year® Awards being held on Friday, October 31, 2014 at the Cobb Galleria Centre.
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Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia. Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.Also read Field Mo...

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week. I am sp...

By Bob GourleyFor years computer scientists have talked about the very interesting challenge regarding the desire to be able to operate over encrypted data in an advanced way called Homomorphic Encryption. This is a field that gets nuanced fast, with terms like “partially homomor...

We hope you have been enjoying the holidays and want to wish everyone a happy new year! We are excited for the opportunities 2014 will bring and we will continue to share the latest news on our blog. Our video of the week explains how the Pod Switch Interconnect is at the heart of the ...

After winning the Black Friday shopping war against Android, iPhones and iPads scored a similar “win” when it came to Christmas Day online shopping in the United States. According to data from IBM analytics, which tracked about 800 nationwide retail sites, Christmas Day online sales we...

Scandit Helps Businesses Make it Easy for Consumers to get Their Last-Minute Holiday Purchasing AccomplishedSan Francisco & Zurich, December 19, 2013 - With Christmas just around the corner, many consumers are scrambling to get their holiday shopping finished - or in some cases sta...

Thousands of IBM Lotus users are aware of the withdrawal and discontinuance of support for Lotus 123, Lotus SmartSuite and Lotus Organizer. Check here for past and pending dates and version numbers....
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Industry majors including IBM, Microsoft and Oracle sign up as sponsors[London, 18 December 2013] IT Europa today announced further details of the 7th Annual European ISV Convention which will be staged at the Lancaster London Hotel on 26 March 2014. It also revealed the identity of so...

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week. I am sp...

New IBM 3270 terminal emulation facility cuts licensing costs and allows conventional mainframe access from EclipseGlobal software and services company Macro 4 has introduced a new IBM mainframe 3270 terminal emulation capability as part of its z/Explorer software. The new 3270 Access ...

London, 10 December, 2013 Following last month's prediction from Gartner[1] that companies using Google Glass or other wearable devices could save $1billion a year in field service costs within the next five years, Scandit, the developer of software-based enterprise barcode scanning an...

Cloud computing budgets worldwide are reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no organization can survive long without some sort of cloud migration strategy. Each month brings new announcements, use cases, and success stories.